Aria Automation Orchestrator - a PowerShell action failed "The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception."

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Trying to execute the PowerShell action fails with error:

  The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception.

• In the logs of the of the execution the following can be seen
  

  ... The remote certificate is invalid because of errors in the certificate ...

• The issue is not resolved even after importing the certificate to the Orchestrator trust store using the Orchestrator Control Center or a workflow like "Import a certificate from URL"

Cause

The Aria Automation Orchestrator PowerShell module does not use the Orchestrator certificate store.

Resolution

To work around the issue please use method -SkipCertificateCheck for the Invoke-RestMethod or Invoke-WebRequest call.

Additional Information

Links to PowerShell Documentation:

Invoke-RestMethod

Invoke-WebRequest